This actually happened to me just recently: there were raccoons on my deck, and so I made myself all big and menacing and sort of leaped at them to scare them away. This time, however, they only took a few steps back and then started advancing on me, slowly, one step at a time. I thought "Man, I've written comics about this, I know the score" and then went inside and let them have the deck. IT'S NOT THAT GREAT A DECK, RACCOONS, SO THE JOKE IS ON YOU.

Later on they tried to figure out the lock on the door while simultaneously pressing their faces up against the glass to see inside